BioPack: Rebuilding Living Soil Through Biology, Fungi, and Practical Regeneration
BioPack is a simple, practical way to rebuild tired or degraded soils by reintroducing the biology that creates fertile structure. Each BioPack…
WickiMix: Turning Organic Waste into Living Soil Through Biology
WickiMix is a biologically active soil regeneration system designed to convert waste organic material into living, fertile soil. It works by combining…
Soil vs Dirt: Why Soil Biology Matters for Wicking Beds
Older soil science focused on sand, silt, clay, and nutrients like NPK. Modern soil science adds the missing piece: biology. Biology is…
Adapting to Climate Change Through Water, Soil, and Biological Systems
Climate change and water scarcity are no longer future risks; they are present realities that demand practical, system-level responses. This article explores…
Carbon Capture in Soil: Why Humus Matters More Than Total Carbon
Capturing carbon in soil is often described as a simple fix for climate change and poor soils, but it is not that…
Technology and Politics of Soil Carbon
This article explains why Kyoto-style carbon rules have struggled, and why soil carbon needs a different approach. Colin Austin argues that soil…
How Microflood Improves Flood Irrigation Efficiency and Crop Yield
Microflood is a practical irrigation upgrade that turns traditional flood irrigation into a far more efficient system. It was recognised internationally with…
Regenerating Soil Using Improved Flood Irrigation
This article explores how improved flood irrigation and wicking-based systems can regenerate soil, reduce water loss, and restore soil biology under increasing…
Anticipatory Irrigation Scheduling: Using Evaporation, Soil Depth, and Rainfall to Save Water
Anticipatory irrigation is a practical and commonsense way to use water better by working with rainfall, evaporation, and soil behaviour rather than…
Irrigation Scheduling Using Crop Factors and Soil Water Holding Capacity
Good irrigation is not guesswork. It is about matching water supply to what your plants actually use, and what your soil can…
Soil Maker: A Practical System for Rapid Soil Regeneration Using Biology and Water
Healthy soil is the foundation of food, nutrition, and long-term resilience. Yet much of the world’s soil is being degraded faster than…
WickiMix Manual: Practical Guide to Soil and Bed Management
The WickiMix system is a practical soil management method designed for wicking beds, sponge beds, and conventional garden beds. By combining living…
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems This blog explains how wicking beds were developed and why they work…
Soils for Wicking Beds
Many people think wicking beds are just to save water; the most important feature however is creating a mini ecology with a…
Soil for Wicking Beds: Biology, Minerals and Health
Healthy Plants vs Plants That Make Us Healthy The most common question I am asked is about soils for wicking beds. That’s…
Soil Biology: The Key to Healthy Wicking Soils
Soil biology is the key — my aim with WickiMix is to provide a concentrate and inoculant where people can create their…
Soil Journey: How Nature Creates Fertile Soil
Where to start regenerating soil? Well nature has been making soil for a few billion years so let us see what we…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Wicking Beds
Parent soils, such as clay, sands and potting mixes can be transformed into soils suitable for wicking beds. Here we start by…
Gbiota Soil Blood, Flood-and-Flush Irrigation, and Foliar Spray
Last updated 8th August with section on foliar irrigation Our basic inputs are organic waste, manure and volcanic rock dust. All cheap, readily available and sustainable. The microbes, particularly the...
Health starts in the soil
Health starts in the soil
Gbiota soil
Creating soil is the number two challenge facing humanity, after climate change. We know exactly how to do it, it has been happening for billions of years naturally covering much...
Health starts in the soil
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Health starts in the soil Part 2
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Making soil in Gbiota beds
The key principle of Gbiota bed is to breed beneficial biology both for the soil and for our guts – creating the conditions which favour the beneficial biology – so...
Making soil 101
Gbiota beds are not simply a watering system to grow cabbages – they are to breed the biology to grow plants as natural pre and pro biotics.
Making soil work
We have the technical ability to grow food, which is convenient, taste good and is cheap in a way totally divorced from the conventional methods of food production, no longer...
Soil destruction
Soil is created by biological action but the wide spread use of chemicals and mechanisation is slowly but persistently destroying the soil on which human life depends.
Rock Dust & Why Soil Biology Matters
Why Not Just Add Rock Dust? The amount of micro-nutrients humans need is tiny—often just a few micrograms. Meanwhile the planet holds…